I don't know if you guys have any control over what ads Google chooses to run on the site, but I am getting increasingly irritated by the ads advertising such things as online games that offer "one click for a roman orgy". I love this game, but I don't want to have ads like that shoved in my face hundreds of times a day.

I also don't want to block ads entirely because, as I understand it, that hurts the revenue that you guys gain from having the ads in the first place. I am just confused about what to do. Is there another way that I can avoid certain ads?

Since when does the qualification as a game automatically assume it is PG-13(ish) rated? A game can be rated for any house monkey to for adults only. They say we like to maintain a PG-13 atmosphere but dont really allow mild cussing so its more along the lines of PG.

Well actually, PG-13 ratings....are for movies
Anyway, it's the wording that got me. I see the pg-13 sign, and think that's what we are rated, but if thats just the atmosphere we like to maintain thenI've been thinking about it wrong.

However, the principal still stands that that ad isn't in sync with what seems to be the intended atmosphere of the game.

Well, I'm not sure what the intended rating/atmosphere of the game is; however, it seems to be adult in quite a few ways. References to alcohol quite often... listings for custom NPCs (concubines, body servants, etc.) on CPM and in the forums... quite a few references (sig/avi/words used) to violence (in some cases, extreme).... and perverse topics/language (more so in IRC, but crosses into the forums as well). It is not for 13 year olds. It is easily for 18 or older.

For example, Impa Xio posted a pic in one of the Neria threads (later questioned by Rawth as Ron Jeremy). For a 13yo that was playing this game, doesn't know who Ron Jeremy is and then did a google search, what would they find?

As game ratings are more appropriate to compare to a game than film ratings, consider that the ESRB ratings are only based on a game's own content. Online interactions do not fall under the heading of that content (hence the warnings that "your game experience may change during online play").

Even online games have rules and enforcement and the like, but constant vigilance remains impossible, and is to be expected for online gaming and interactions. That doesn't itself make a game unsuitable for teenagers under 18; presumably there is some degree of internet exposure said individual is permitted in the first place, and such things cannot fall within the confines of game ratings.

Obviously that mindset applies to advertising, as well, and it seems to me that far more people are interested in policing what is/is not acceptable for someone else hypothetical 17 year old to see, forgetting their own forays into far more explicit areas at that age, than considering the context of the situation.

To that end, Maha Michi, the mere mention of Ron Jeremy is perfectly appropriate (provided no explicit descriptions or images of his work are included), and if that hypothetical 13 year old you have arbitrarily invented for yourself chooses to google him, perhaps it isn't your job to tell him what he can and cannot google. Perhaps you should leave the parenting to his parents, who surely understand the "dangers" of random google searches, as well as the functionality of SafeSearch that google itself provides, as well as parenting software that enables the blocking of sites they deem inappropriate.

(Although realistically speaking, I'd be impressed if you could point me to a 13 year old who isn't aware of porn. Ron Jeremy specifically, sure perhaps not, but in what society are you people living where everyone is so sheltered that they can't stomach the mere mention of such things?)

If you can't handle it, it's not our fault to police you. You can leave, no one is making you stay. While leaving wouldn't be the best, as we want everyone to play and have fun, there are a select few that take the PG-13 and prudishness to an extreme.

I mean. We have men, pretending to be ladies. Then they talk about how large their boobs are, and how tight their dresses are.